Ten Rock Bands That Went Pop

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For any striving artist, it feels practically unimaginable attempting to make sure about your brand name sound. In a world that is overwhelmed by 1,000,000 distinct individuals throbbing for similar sort of consideration from their fans, what the heck makes your little endeavor any not quite the same as the rest? However much it may appear to be intense beginning, some of the time it works similarly too to go the pop way.

While a large portion of these performers began as rock, they have done all that they can to remove themselves from the class name since their introduction. Depend on it, a portion of these individuals are as yet turning in some stone riffs to a great extent, however those are more for a sample of assortment instead of the clear licks they may have been making some time ago. So that implies these craftsmen ought to get hung at the stake for selling out, correct? Well...no not by and large.

Despite the fact that there is some cheddar to make certain in this rundown, a ton of these craftsmen tracked down their own style in pop and figured out how to make the change much more consistently than you may anticipate. You need to take the great with the terrible however, and a ton of these craftsmen dove straight into the pool of fly without verifying whether there was any water in it. While rock may have been a decent beginning stage, the period of crunchy guitars is presently immovably in the rear view.

At whatever point somebody chooses to take the action into pop, it never makes for the smoothest of advances. For hell's sake, all things considered, the vast majority of the specialists who sell out do it so definitely that you get apparent whiplash just by tuning in to the tunes one after the other. There are a couple of shared conviction components however, and Peter Gabriel utilized them dazzlingly with the arrival of So.

All through the length of its runtime, this whole record feels like fly on prog's footing, having the same amount of weight in the game plans as it does with the snares that it's testing. Notwithstanding what sort of kind this falls into, you can generally rely on Gabriel coming through with an infectious song to integrate everything. There are even a few callbacks to world music, which is surely a switchup from the ordinary bubblegum you'd find on the radio, including an African jam during the last part of the tune In Your Eyes.

Notwithstanding a portion of the more extraordinary minutes, the record additionally has stuff like Sledgehammer that is by all accounts the peculiar brainchild of something like the Talking Heads being sifted some unusual advanced type of Memphis soul music. Gabriel may have quite recently been a music weirdo, however his way to deal with pop has made him found a way into the unbelievable form in a manner that not even Phil Collins might have pulled off.
 
Well, I might very well be whipped for this, but I think Queen went 80% pop from Killer Queen onwards :)
 
It was Bohemium Rhapsody that alerted Queen to the possible riches available from successful 'pop' songs. While Led Zeppelin refused to release a single track into the charts declaring themselves an 'albums only' band. However I think if they did release stairway to heaven it undoutably would have been every bit as successful as Bohemium Rhapsody.
 
It was Bohemium Rhapsody that alerted Queen to the possible riches available from successful 'pop' songs. While Led Zeppelin refused to release a single track into the charts declaring themselves an 'albums only' band. However I think if they did release stairway to heaven it undoutably would have been every bit as successful as Bohemium Rhapsody.
True, but Queen wimped out on the exquisitely rock fans by composing pop songs like Radio Gaga.....Bohemian Rhapsody was still composed on pop rock ballad lines.
 
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